Planification? (Speaking of invented words...)

[anita_hillin]

I've enjoyed reading the thread about language, and I think it's
attuned my ear to aberrations, which is why this latest one jumped out
at me from the car radio on my way to work this morning.

I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio, if you're not from the
US), and they were interviewing Bernard Kouchner, who is the Foreign
Minister for France, I think?  He's meeting with Condoleeza Rice later
this morning, at any rate.  The interviewer was asking about France's
policy on Iran, and I could SWEAR he said, "We have no plan and no
planification for invading Iran."  

I will say, I was a little distracted from driving when I heard that
one.  (His English was otherwise excellent.)  I have never studied
French, so could he have made a literal translation of a legitimate
French word?  

Hmm, I'm going to have to find a place to use "planification," just
for fun.

akh, who is grateful that her boss is something of a language purist